Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?
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I'd pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this
To be fair, ambushing anyone on the street, out of context, is extremely likely to get a dumber answer than normal.
This would make a good study, actually. Ambush people on the street and quiz them. For the control group, quiz them immediately, on the street. For the experimental group, take them to a more relaxed location, allow them to sit, give them a minute or two to get collected, quiz them and measure the difference from the control group. You can do it with easy, medium, hard questions.
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And why didn't they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would've been a lot less controversial.
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It's because Alaska has migratory patterns, that's why it's sometimes southwest of Texas, other times it's right next to California.
How are you going to build a bridge that moves that far, dumbass?
A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.
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A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.
Alaska doesn't like being tethered, it will just buck around and turn the whole Pacific into a churning gyre. The wildness would have to be beaten out of it first. Don't worry though, that's being worked on.
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Because then they couldn't sell their precious Alaskan cruises.
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and the fentanyl
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Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL
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If you watch Fox News then yes but if you actually look at the figures, it’s fucking nothing
I think they were speaking ironically.
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Yes, and how convenient I know a guy who has a bridge to sell as well!
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It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.
That's about 235 miles.
The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.
However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico.....
We TOTALLY could.
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I wonder what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.
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That'd be a long bridge.
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This is a misconception. It's not expensive to build the bridge, it's just prohibitive to move Alaska down there especially while changing its border projection neatly.
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We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.
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Because America doesn't have enough money to build the bridge they are saving it to get 6 trillion luxury cars and houses /s
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Yes.
But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.
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I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In Canada's defense, that is in significant part, handguns. If you keep a long gun with you, as long as it doesn't hit their 10,000 J (7375 ft-lbs) muzzle energy limit --- and if it's in your glovebox, I assume that whatever you have isn't doing that --- and doesn't hit their specific restrictions on upper receivers, you're probably okay.
A NATO 5.56 mm rifle round looks like it has a muzzle energy of about 1.8 kJ.
That'd let you carry an elephant gun.
If you want a semi-auto rifle...goes looking
Looks like they exist in 500 Auto Max.
https://gunsamerica.com/digest/big-horn-armory-ar500/
I imagine that one of those would be okay. Looks like the ammunition is sold in Canada.
EDIT: If you want something that you can shoot one-handed, maybe a short bullpup rifle with a barrel of at least 470mm (~18.5 in), which is apparently their "handgun"/"not-handgun" divider.
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We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.
wrote last edited by [email protected]We wouldn't have that problem if they would just voluntarily surrender their sovereignty and become the 51st state smh
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Edit: hopefully I don't need the /s but there it is anyway
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A very modest and reasonable proposal
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Yes.
But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.
The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.
